[WT Sharpe]

Wondering if a particular book is available in your country? The following spoiler contains a list of bookstores outside the United States you can search. If you don't see a bookstore on this list for your country, find one that is, send me the link via PM, and I'll add it to the list.

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Australian
Angus Robertson
Booktopia
Borders
Dymocks
Fishpond
Google

Canada
Amazon. Make sure you are logged out. Then go to the Kindle Store. Search for a book. After the search results come up, in the upper right corner of the screen, change the country to Canada and search away.
Google
Sony eBookstore (Upper right corner switch to/from US/CA)

UK
BooksOnBoard (In the upper right corner is a way to switch to the UK store)
Amazon
Foyle's
Google
Penguin
Random House
Waterstones
WH Smith

*** The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker [HomeInMyShoes, Dazrin, treadlightly]
Goodreads | Amazon US

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Winner of the Mythopoeic Award in 2014 for Adult Literature.

*** American Gods by Neil Gaiman [Dazrin, VioletVal, WT Sharpe]
Goodreads | Amazon US / WorldCat

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Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.

Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, AMERICAN GODS takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what and who it finds there...

Awards: Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2001), Hugo Award for Best Novel (2002), Nebula Award for Best Novel (2002), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2002), International Horror Guild Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2002), SFX Award for Best Novel (2002), Geffen Award (2003), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2002), Prix Bob Morane for roman traduit (2003)

*** A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle [sun surfer, Synamon, CRussel]
Goodreads | Amazon AU / Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Kobo

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Won the the British Book Awards Best Travel Book of the Year 1989 and the Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec 1995. Known for its honesty, wit and humour, this short and popular book inspired several follow-ups as well as radio and television adaptations, and inspired Mayle's novel (and the later film adaptation) A Good Year.

From Goodreads:

In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

*** All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr [treadlightly, JSWolf, HomeInMyShoes]
Goodreads | Amazon.com / Kobo CA / Google Play / Overdrive

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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When Marie-Laure is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.

** Downbelow Station by Cherryh [drofgnal, CRussel]
Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Barnes & Noble / Kobo CA

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From Amazon:

The Hugo Award-winning classic, now available in a trade edition for the first time.

Pell's Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between 'The Company,' whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pell's location?on the outer edge of Earth's defensive perimeter? makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence?

* Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel [sun surfer]
Goodreads | Amazon AU / Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo /
Audible AU / Audible UK / Audible US

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Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2010 Walter Scott Prize, 2010 The Morning News Tournament of Books, made into a play and with a brand new (released this year) and highly praised television adaptation.

From Goodreads:

Tudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.

** Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay [sun surfer, Synamon]
Goodreads | Amazon AU / Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo

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Wwinner of the inaugural 1954 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

From Goodreads:

Suicide or murder? Newly arrived in Papua, where even the luscious vegetation seems to conspire with the bureaucrats to bewilder her, Stella Warwick is determined to prove her husband did not take his own life. Defying the patronising concern of officials, she ventures deep into the jungle, striding ever closer to the horrifying heart of the mystery.

*** Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs [JSWolf, WT Sharpe, treadlightly]
Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive Audio / Overdrive eBook / Waterstones UK

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It is the first book in the Temperance Brennan series and this series is the basis for the TV show Bones. Her first novel, Déjà Dead, won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. The fictional heroine in her novels, Temperance "Tempe" Brennan, is also a forensic anthropologist.

Her life is devoted to justice — for those she never even knew.

In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern — and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her — her best friend and her own daughter — in mortal danger….

* Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan [caleb72]
Amazon (AU) / Amazon (CA) / Amazon (UK) / Amazon (US) / Google Play / Kobo

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Awards include:
Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2002)
Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2002)
Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (2002)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2002)

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened...

The nominations are now closed.